May 17 2007Software restores shredded documents
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute's Production Systems and Design Technology lab have created software designed to take scans of shredded documents and piece them back together. The scans are "analysed by a cluster of 16 computers for 25 features, including color, shape, texture, handwriting and typeface" and then pieced back together. Which is almost as effective as my method: guessing. And tape. Lots and lots of tape.
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Reader Comments
1. vanman - May 17, 2007 12:11 PM
Great. Looks like I'm going to have to abandon any form of documenting the tabs from drug sales.
2. jillybean - May 17, 2007 12:30 PM
This is why I like to eat all my sensitive documents (and the fiber helps keep me regular). People called me crazy, but look who's crazy now suckers!
3. BobTheMul - May 17, 2007 12:35 PM
The shredded paper in my houshold gets put in the cat litter tray! If anybody wants to find out how my test results from the STD clinic went... be my guest.
Damn it.. I want to know how those went!?
4. CAPITALLETTERS - May 17, 2007 1:22 PM
Looks like BobTheMul needs an Interrobang. Bob, consider yourself INTERROBANG'DATED.
F***ing Cynical-C stealing my thunder with his weblog, and visitors. That's my damn discovery.
5. BNew - May 17, 2007 3:27 PM
I'll be impressed when it can un-burn something. Until then, I'm going to keep on embezzling.
6. ummmmmm - May 17, 2007 9:59 PM
thats not shredding....thats just ripped up peices of paper....u can pay some homeless guy to do what the computers doing......
guess my cross cut shredder is still good to get rid of those documents
7. dekker - May 18, 2007 9:52 AM
I'll be more impressed when the computer can take those same paper shreds and author ransom notes with them.
8. kevjohn - May 18, 2007 10:24 AM
Reminds me of the Penguin taping the documents back together in Batman Returns.